AC9LG8EC03 Year 7 Languages

AC9LG8EC03 – Year 7 Languages: Interacting in German

Strand

Communicating meaning in German

Substrand

Interacting in German

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 Languages provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Content Descriptor

engage in modelled non-verbal, spoken and written exchanges with peers to organise activities relating to daily life and school environment

Elaborations

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participating in real or simulated situations such as buying a bus/cinema ticket or food, for example, Ich nehme ein Käsebrötchen, Was kostet ein Eis? Das macht 6,50 Euro.
• engaging with peers to produce a bilingual publicity flyer for an upcoming event or performance to promote German learning among school community members, for example, a German-speaking Community Day, a language school assembly or infographic to introduce a new or improved recycling program at school
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participating in scenarios, for example, being lost and asking for and giving directions or assistance including non-verbal gestures, Wie komme ich zum Bahnhof? Wo ist die Post? Geh nach links! Ich brauche Hilfe!
• participating in collaborative projects, for example, making and playing a vocabulary game such as Dominoes, Memory or Quartett, or producing and sharing a digital alphabet or number book for a younger audience
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planning for a class celebration, for example, creating an invitation or program using Wann? Was? Wer? Wo?, or writing a shopping list, such as for a Geburtstagsparty
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accepting or declining an invitation, for example, using a short message, Liebe/r X, danke für deine Einladung. Ich kann am Freitag nicht mitkommen. Ich habe Basketballtraining.
• collaborating with others such as a partner school to design a bilingual resource, making choices about when to use German or English depending on the context, topic and nature of the interaction, for example, maintaining a website, newsletter, blog, or secure digital communication space

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANGER7_10Y78

Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students use German language to interact and collaborate with others, and to share information and plan activities in familiar contexts. They respond to others’ contributions, and recognise familiar gestures, questions and instructions in exchanges. They recognise relationships between spoken and written forms. They locate and respond to information in texts and use non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They respond in German or English, and demonstrate understanding of context, purpose and audience in texts. They use familiar language, and modelled sentence and grammatical structures to create texts. Students approximate pronunciation and intonation in spoken German. They demonstrate understanding that German has conventions and rules for non-verbal, spoken and written communication. They comment on aspects of German and English language structures and features, using metalanguage. They demonstrate awareness that the German language is connected with culture and identity, and that this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.